The 2017 Harp School promises to be another fantastic week with Caroline Mackay, Tristan Le Govic, Sunita Staneslow and and Mairi Chambeul from Scotland. This year we are also adding Cello with Morag Northey.

This workshop is for writers of short nonfiction and/or fiction pieces, and/or poetry writers who have enough parts of the whole that it is time to step back and consider how all these parts can most effectively create a whole.

First offered in 2000 with distinguished Canadian artist Norman Yates, the Artists’ Project for Professional and Emerging Artists has had a tremendous impact on the artistic development of those who have taken part in it. Participating artists spend nine days in Wells working in the IMA studios under the mentorship of senior artists.

A workshop for artists for have some basic experience with painting fundamentals and composition, but for whom “loosening up “ or getting beyond tried and true recipes andthinking about painting in a new way.

Island Mountain Arts presents a mentored studio residency lead by Peter Corbett, one of BC’s premier plein air oil painters. This week-long guided residency is designed to help emerging and professional visual artists explore their studio practice all-the-while being immersed in the beautiful and historic backdrop of Wells in the Winter.